The governing notion seems to be that Beckett's play is a self-reflexive study of theatre.
The movie's governing notion is that this plot structure, a daisy chain of awkward encounters, is a metaphor for the loneliness and dislocation of modern urban life.
The poem borrows from Vladimir Mayakovsky, from whom O'Hara also took his governing notion that the poem should wrap itself around the poet.
Needless to say, those who perceived China's reform direction–however stalled and governing notions as a signal of deepening engagement and liberalization can hardly regard this as good news.
As viewers, we rely on hierarchies to govern our notion of television ambition: cable trumps network, drama is better than sitcom, adult is worthier than teen, realistic is more grownup than sci-fi, grim beats sunny, PBS documentary tops Bravo reality show, and "as good as Dickens" is superior to anything resembling a soap opera.
At its heart, How to Be Both, which has already been longlisted for the Man Booker prize, is an eloquent challenge to the binary notions governing our existence.
In this paper I argue that, in response to these pressures, new forms of governing irrigated landscapes, notions of social-environmental harmony and sustainability, and ways of shaping farmer behaviour are emerging.
As the political economist William Davies points out, "sovereignty" is used as a code for rejecting the very notion of governing as "a complex, modern, fact-based set of activities that requires technical expertise and permanent officials".
Salisbury's passing gave James the notion of governing in person as his own chief Minister of State, with his young Scottish favourite, Robert Carr, carrying out many of Salisbury's former duties, but James's inability to attend closely to official business exposed the government to factionalism.
In the positive state, the mind stops looking for causes of phenomena, and limits itself strictly to laws governing them; likewise, absolute notions are replaced by relative ones.
"The more Taiwanese people see the chaotic protests in Hong Kong, the more they reject [being governed under the notion of] 'One Country, Two Systems'.
